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 programming, have a good knowledge of formal specification and UML,
 and have a working knowledge of the English language.
+  * Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbiro|Mauro Birattari]] and Manuele Brambilla (IRIDIA)
+===== A GUI for debugging the behavior of a robot swarm =====
+Debugging a robot swarm is a complex and difficult task.
+The desired behavior of the swarm is the result of the complex
+non-linear interactions of tens or hundreds of robots. When
+implementing a swarm robotics system, very often it is necessary to
+analyze individually the output of the execution of each robot, a very
+long and boring process. Since the goal of the developer is to obtain
+a specific collective behavior, it would be better to debug the system
+at the collective level and, only if necessary, at the individual
+level.
+In this thesis we will analyze a possible way to debug the collective
+behavior of a swarm of robots, using macroscopic and microscopic
+modeling. The goal is to develop a GUI that shows the state of the
+collective behavior of the system, and if the user requires it, the
+state of a single robot. We will start with a version of the debugging
+GUI that interface with the ARGoS simulator and eventually one that
+interfaces with the real robots.
+Required skills: the candidates should be acquainted with C/C++
+programming, GUI programming (QT/C++ or QT/Python or Java) and have a
+working knowledge of the English language.
   * Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbiro|Mauro Birattari]] and Manuele Brambilla (IRIDIA)